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As always, there were so many games to enjoy at EGX this year. Whilst it was great to play Battlefront 2, Mario Odyssey and Shadow of War in glorious 4K, my favourite place was to be is knee deep in Indie games.
This year did not disappoint as gamers could experience a myriad of games from some of the most creative indies on the planet. Here are just ten of my favourites.
Forgotten Anne
Forgotten Anne blew me away at EGX, the sheer beauty of the art style, smooth animation and seamless transitions from game to cutscene just made the whole experience feel like being in a beautiful anime cartoon. Set in a magical world where everything that is lost and forgotten goes, you play Anne as she attempts to quash a rebellion that would send her back to the human realm.
Link: https://www.forgottonanne.com/
Claws of Furry
Claws of Furry oozes classic arcade Beat'em up action with a healthy blend of Rogue-like elements. Choose between four fully customisable ninja cats as they punch and claw their way through fifty levels of pure mayhem. Players can hone their Ninja Cat skills, in order to rescue your Master from the evil claws of an unknown enemy. The painted art style and colourful characters are the purrfect accompaniment for the fast-paced co-op action.
Link: http://www.clawsoffurry.com/
Natures Zombie Apocalypse
Animals are the heroes in this quirky zombie shooter. Elephants with miniguns and sloths with flamethrowers are just a few of the crazy combinations available to take on the undead. Gaming with your friends has never been so much fun!
Link: http://aniode.com/
The stunning visuals are what first drew me to The Occupation. But on closer inspection, I became intrigued by the 1980's setting, the non-violent political narrative and array of voice talent being used. The very British Bioshock focuses on the story of a whistle-blowing journalist as he tackles four hours of real-time action. Based on what you see and decide to print, can sway a new an controversial act in government and change the future of the country.
Link: http://www.occupation-game.com/
Deadbeat Heroes
Deadbeat Heroes is a Movement based 3D brawler set in the 1970's where you (and a friend) dodge bullets and steal superpowers. As players have no superpowers, they use a special gauntlet to steal the powers from the supervillains. The low poly visuals and eye-bleeding colour palette give this an instant sense of fun and after bashing through baddies at EGX, I am eager for more.
Link: https://www.upstreamarcade.com/
Skye was the kind of game that instantly hit me as a potential for my yearly Xbox One games for Children feature. Its colourful graphics, relaxing soundtrack and lack of any death state make it perfect for both kids and adults looking to fly around helping people without the stress of difficulty levels or evil enemies to hinder your enjoyment. However, developers told me that due to another studio also calling their game Skye, they are now asking the Twittersphere for new names to avoid copyright issues. Either way, whatever its name turns out to be, it looks and plays really well.
Link: https://www.punyastronaut.com/
Raging Justice oozed retro charm and gave me tingles of nostalgia. This side-scrolling beat-em-up is an auld to the likes of Final Fight, Mercenary and classic arcade games such as X-Men, Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons. Raging Justice takes it story straight out of those 80's action movie but adds an element of choice by allowing you to beat the assailants into submission or daze and arrest them adding a new element of strategy. At EGX Raging Justice was mounted inside its very own arcade cabinet where it looked particularly at home. Coming to an arcade near you 'hopefully'.
Link: http://www.makingames.com/
Just when you think the side-scrolling adventure game has tried it all along comes lost words. Written by Rihanna Pratchett, who wrote the likes of Tomb Raider, this beautiful cartoon adventure sees the protagonist explore pages of a book before jumping into the words content. Puzzles are solved by collecting and using certain words to manipulate the environment from extinguishing fires to building bridges. Definitely, one to watch.
Link: http://lostwordsgame.com/
Phantom Halls
Luigi's Mansion meets Until Dawn in this 2D ghost hunting game. A group of stereotypical low-poly protagonists roams around a haunted mansion in an attempt to survive the night, rescue lost friends and fight off hordes of monsters. Phantom Halls sees players take on the roles of multiple characters at once – with each character's actions assigned to a different key. It's a real-time Worms but with the procedurally generated chaos of Spelunky!
Link: http://www.phantomhalls.com/
Journey into the mind and stop the nightmares in this psychedelic adventure game set deep within the sub-conscience. The visuals are stunning blending a hand-drawn art with the creativity of Salvador Dali. This game oozes charm out of every pore from the range of cute animations to the detailed boss characters found in each level. Released on Steam in late September, this game should be arriving on consoles some time at the end of November.
Link: https://www.bedtime.io/
Black and White Bushido
Black and White Bushido is really hard to describe but I will give it my best. Bushido merges stealth action with multiplayer mayhem in this single screen puzzle brawler. Players are either light or shadow and are rendered invisible if they are on the same colour background or stand still. The levels have both light and shadow areas and players can either take over the opposing areas by killing players or collecting flags. It took a short time to understand the mechanics but once understood, you couldn't get me off it.
Link: https://www.goodcatchgames.com/game/black-white-bushido-game/
This student project looks stunning already with highly detailed scenes, a clutter-free UI and an interesting story to tell. Walking and investigating blends seamlessly with top-down driving
This student project looks stunning already with highly detailed scenes, a clutter-free UI and an interesting story to tell. Walking and investigating blends seamlessly with top-down driving gameplay and the voice acting has me intrigued. I am eager to playtest this game later in its development as the early footage is definitely turning heads.
So there you have it, just a mere smattering of the amazing games on show at EGX 2017. Did you go? What were your most memorable indie games?
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Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases
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Book DescriptionThis work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media.
Book DescriptionThis work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media. These cases are taken from the ranks of vaudeville, film, theatre, dance, music, literature (writers with direct connections to film), and other allied fields in the entertainment industry from 1905 through 2000. Accidentally self-inflicted deaths are omitted, except for a few controversial cases.
It includes the suicides of well-known personalities such as actress Peg Entwistle, who is the only person to ever commit suicide by jumping from the top of the Hollywood Sign, Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, who are believed to have overdosed on drugs, and Richard Farnsworth and Brian Keith, who shot themselves to end the misery of terminal cancer. Also mentioned, but in less detail, are the suicides of unknown and lesser-known members of the entertainment industry. Arranged alphabetically, each entry covers the person's personal and professional background, method of suicide, place of burial, and, in some instances, includes actual statements taken from the suicide note.
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This slouchy striped sweater is always at the top of the pile because we wear it again and again. It's also a genius way to conceal the fact that your pants are perma-unbuttoned after this holiday season.
Aside from being obsessed with these colors, we love the fit of this crisscross front layer that gives a feminine touch to this season's coldest days. Puffed sleeves make it even cuter and seriously, have you seen all the colors it comes in?
We're all about the effortless way this turtleneck keeps us cozy and cute at the same time. Its cabled sleeves add the perfect amount of prep with a twist for a look that's timeless and modern all at once.
This ribbed V-neck is a Monday-through-Sunday staple because we can literally find an excuse to wear it every single day of the week. Dress it up, dress it down, do whatever you want with it and you're guaranteed to look the right amount of pulled together at all times!
Thanks to its perfect pattern in our favorite colors, we're pretty sure this piece will be the only thing getting us through the gloomy days ahead this winter. Plus, it's got a touch of fuzz for that worn-in look we love.
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My little girl started daycare today....Breath momma, breath.
While it is hard for anyone to leave their babe in the hands of others for all the obvious reasons - For me leaving Pip is so much more - I mean besides going away for the first time last week with my husband, her and I have never been apart.
Moments when she needed a feeding tube to survive.
Moments where surgeries to fix her heart and eyes loomed over us.
Moments when nothing else mattered in the world except holding her in my arms...So, to let her freely walk out of them caused some major momma tears this morning.
And I know all the "it will be good for her" and "you need this time" and yada, yada, yada goodness that it all will bring. But today I choose to dwell in these tears.
Tears of letting my little girl go.
Tears of being so damn proud of her.
Tears of fear that she's going to be teased, bit, pushed or not accepted.
Tears of excitement to see the impact she has on all those around her.
Tears of peace that her big brother is there with his big, sweet heart and protective bull dog tendencies.
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Tears of acceptance that this is what is needed for our family.
Tears of thankfulness that I had 2 full years with her.
Tears of guilt because I'm a momma and that just undeniably happens.
Tears of happiness that as soon as I put her down and let her loose in her classroom, another little girl went right up over to her and hugged Pippy hard. That little girl will never know how she helped ease a momma's heart. Because as rationally as I can be, I know this is just daycare, but I can't help get emotionally revved up imagining this all when it comes time for real school. The "will she get teased", "will Noal be there to protect her", "will she be okay" kinda thoughts swirled in and out of her today and her in a few years. So that little girl coming up and hugging her helped the swirls stay positive.
The amazing daycare director and staff sent me pictures and updates throughout the day and I think have already fallen in love with my sweet girl...Pip had a great day - A million times better than Noal's first day or any of my friend's kids days combine. She rocked it like I knew she would yet I still ate too many snickers and got emotionally-crazy-felt-the-need-to-ride-the-change-train-all-the-way and chopped off all my hair.
I need help and more snickers.
Elizabeth Stone wrote, "Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. " It will never matter if our children are 2 or 22--they will always be our babies.
She's beautiful!! Be proud of her & yourself!
I read this because I have to bring my own baby to child care for the first time soon. Thanks for writing how I'm feeling about it. Tears and all. To be a mommy is to simultaneously want them to grow up and gain independence while wanting to stop the clock to keep their baby snuggles and giggles forever.


The Louisa County Chamber of Commerce seeks the involvement of our members to ensure that we stay relevant to the needs and issues facing our diverse business community. We encourage our members to engage in various committees, education initiatives and strategic planning. It is only through the involvement of our members that we are able to successfully build and implement programs and initiatives to meet the needs of businesses and our community overall.
If that doesn't pique your interest, consider the impact of positioning your business as an influencer within the community. Getting actively involved with the leadership of the Chamber will lead to more referrals, increased visibility and personal development. We need your talents to make a bigger impact on our members and community.
Below is a short list of opportunities. If you don't see something that interests you, please contact Tracy Hale Clark, Executive Director, to discuss other opportunities to utilize your talents.


Kitchen design layout – Your new kitchen layout should be designed with you in mind. That's why it could be very helpful for you to be directly involved in setting up the new kitchen layout and design. When you build a new home or renovate your home, you will probably work with several professionals, including a kitchen contractor and possibly a kitchen designer. Take advantage of these resources to help you set your kitchen layout. Ultimately, however, the final design should be up to you.
Be inspired by displaying other kitchen design layout. Look at portfolios with kitchen designers to help you get a better idea of your options. Working with a professional can help you create a more practical and aesthetically pleasing design. Determine where you want to place windows and entrances. Keep in mind that appliances and cabinets must fit these parts. A window above the sink generally gives light to the kitchen.
Add a sink. Disk on is one of the centerpieces of your kitchen design layout. It often fits among cabinets and should be close to appliances for easy access. Incorporate the devices. Kitchenware includes fridge, dishwasher, traditional oven and microwave. A microwave can often be hanged free to space. Leaving a few feet of disk space on both sides of the traditional oven, refrigerator and sink make cooking easier.


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benny Vasquez / Apr 21st, 2016 / Products March 31st, 2017: The Day the Sun Sets on CentOS 5 CentOS 5 will reach end of life officially on March 31st of 2017, but as an industry we are already feeling the pain of people still using the out of date OS. Trying to support a system on an aging Operating System is not that far from trying to live in an aging apartment building. Ill-fitting fixtures, flickering electricity, and malfunctioning plumbing are just some of the daily struggles in those old buildings. Similarly, when the basic requirements of modern hosting are a struggle to maintain it has a severe and direct impact on every webhost's quality of life. cPanel & WHM version 56 (in the CURRENT tier as of April 11th, 2016, with an expected End of Life of May of 2017) will be the last version of cPanel to support CentOS 5, and 32bit Architecture. We have considered this heavily, and have decided to drop support for those things for two primary reasons: As a software provider, the opportunity cost of continuing to support the oldest infrastructure is too high, and it severely limits the amount of new things we can deliver to our users. As an industry, cPanel believes making it easier for people to continue to host on old, insecure, out of date software ultimately hurts us all. Deprecating support for older systems and older software is necessary for the over-all health of the hosting industry. cPanel is keeping its eye on the future, and letting the old software go. But we know how hard it traditionally is to migrate from an old server to a new one. To help with that we developed the Server Configuration addition to the transfer tool. The Server Configuration Additions to the Transfer Tool In version 11.44 we introduced the Transfer Tool, and it has proved a reliable tool to migrate accounts and packages between servers. As of v56 you can use it to transfer server configurations between servers as well. Note: This is intended to be used to transfer configurations from an existing v56 server to a new server. No attempt is made to back up configurations on the destination server. Additionally, this tool is not intended to be used to migrate configurations from compromised servers. If you're familiar with the transfer tool, you will find that the additions we've made are incredibly simple to use. Once you authenticate to the origin server, you'll see an expandable section called "Service Configurations". Click the 'Show' button: Choose the configurations you want to transfer, and go through the Transfer Tool like you normally would: The configurations are moved to the new server, any relevant services are restarted, and you're all set! The same team that built this interface also expanded the functionality of the cpconftool, to help you complete a similar migration on the command line. The cpconftool a command line utility that operates in a very similar way to pkgacct. You can read more about it on our documentation site. You can find the full documentation about the additions to the Transfer Tool in the Transfer Tool Documentation for v56. Note: Due to the potential complications involved, currently MySQL is not included in the WHM Transfer Tool interface. You can still copy your MySQL configuration using the command line tool cpconftool, you can still back up and manually copy your MySQL configuration v56 will be the last version of cPanel to support CentOS 5, the last version to support 32bit architecture. Just in case it wasn't obvious yet, we want you to upgrade, to migrate, and to keep using and providing new and better software. If you still have any hesitation about the Transfer Tool's additions, I'd love to hear about it! Email me or tweet me, and let me know! https://blog.cpanel.com/end-of-life-for-centos5/
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Explore the best of southern Peru starting in Lima, then the wildlife at Paracas, followed by the mysterious Nazca lines. On to Arequipa, then Puno & the highlands of Lake Titicaca. Continue to exotic Cusco and finally a grand guided tour of Machu Picchu.
Our driver will meet you at the airport in Lima, Peru and transfer to your hotel (45 minutes). Most flights arrive late in the evening.
Walk through the main streets, squares, and avenue of the city. Begin with Parque de Amor (Love Park) in Miraflores, with a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean. Then you'll have a panoramic view of the Huaca Pucllana, the ceremonial center of the Lima culture. Continue to Plaza de Armas, where you'll find the Government Palace and City Hall. Visit the Cathedral and explore the Convent of Santo Domingo.
The early bus will take us to Paracas - National Reserve Park and then to the clear, blue waters of the Ballestas Islands, teeming with wildlife including sea lions and many varieties of birds. In the afternoon we will arrive in Nazca for our overnight.
We'll board our flight for the best view of the Nazca lines, which is from the air. Later that day we go to Chauchilla, (a pre-Inca cemetery). We take an overnight bus to Arequipa.
This is an easy day in Arequipa and after a good rest, we will tour the old monastery of Santa Catalina. Then we'll introduce you to our ancient friend "Juanita," one of the last Inca mummies found on Ampato Mountain.
After an early breakfast, we board our motor boat to travel to the Floating Reed Islands (Los Uros) where we learn how totora reed is used to build livable space and canoes. Then on to visit Takile Island, where the men are renowned knitters. After a divine homemade luncheon and a walking tour we return to Puno by boat.
Our bus follows the roadway as it rambles through the countryside with stops to explore the Pukara Museum, (pre-Inca site) Racchi (pre-Inca ruins) and Andahuaylillas (colonial church). Includes a stop for lunch offering a buffet of tempting Peruvian cuisine. 5 PM: Arrival and overnight in Cusco.
We'll enjoy a walking tour of Cusco for an easy day. We'll visit La Plaza de Las Armas in the center of Cusco and museums including the Cathedral and Koricancha, the Inca Temple of the Sun. In the afternoon, you will enjoy an escorted, guided tour of the archaeological ruins of Sacsayhuaman, Quenco, Pucapucara and Tambomachay.
An early start will take us through the Sacred Valley of the Incas, on our way to Chinchero, famous for hand-dyed and woven fabrics. We will stop in Pisac to enjoy the beautiful market and maybe do a little shopping. Maras and Moray, the salt ponds are on the itinerary for the afternoon before we arrive at our hotel in Ollantaytambo.
After our Peruvian buffet breakfast, you will visit the Ollantaytambo ruins, then board the train for a 2 hour ride to Aguas Calientes for a quick check-in at the hotel before our final ride up to the Machu Picchu National Park. Your guide provides a private, guided afternoon tour (which is the best time to avoid crowds at Machu Picchu) before returning to Aguas Calientes for the night.
You can choose to return to the Machu Picchu ruins for further exploration or you can stay in Aguas Calientes to enjoy a bath in the hot springs or do some shopping. Return to Cusco by train in the afternoon.
Whether you choose to spend a relaxing day wandering around Cusco or a busy day finishing your shopping, the choice is yours. Enjoy a farewell dinner with your guide and companions.
After breakfast, we will take you to the airport where our services conclude. You will fly one hour to Lima for your connecting flight to your next destination or your home.
Choose your dates, then contact us for availability. Please include the time of year you plan to travel, the number of people in your group and the title of the trip you are interested in.


So for the first time in my life I cooked some real handmade pasta. Andrea showed up at my house the other day with a brown bag from this store she's been bragging about so much. It had huge lettering on the outside which read "Eataly is Italy" and inside there was something wrapped in more paper. When she told me what it was and I opened it up she had bought fresh handmade Spinach and Plain Linguine. There was some flower residue and on top laid the rolls of pasta. It wasn't even cooked yet and you can smell it. So anyways, we dropped it in some boiling water, it cooked and served it with olive oil and grated romano cheese. I have to say, it was some of the best pasta I've ever tasted. I normally eat whole wheat spaghetti when I do, but this was awesome. Anyways, I haven't gone to check out this store but from what I've heard its pretty crazy all the fresh and imported Italian foods they sell there. I definitely got to go check it out! If anyone decides to go its called Eataly in NYC.


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Steve Quinn, British rugby league player, Died at 64
Steve Quinn was born in 1951, and died in 2016.
He was a rugby league footballer.
He was known in the 1970s and '80s,
He played as a centre for York and Featherstone Rovers.
In 1975, he began his career at York before joining Featherstone Rovers, he went on to become Featherstone Rovers' record goal and point scorer, and finished his career with a total of 3,438 points.
He played and scored four conversions in Featherstone Rovers' 14-12 victory over Hull in the 1983 Challenge Cup final during the 1982–83 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday, May 7, 1983.
He played centre, i.e. number 4, and scored 3-conversions in Featherstone Rovers' 12-16 defeat by Leeds in the 1976 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1976–77 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Saturday October 16, 1976, and played centre, i.e. number 4, (replaced by Interchange/Substitute Neil Tuffs) and scored a conversion in the 7-17 defeat by Castleford in the 1977 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1977–78 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Saturday October 15, 1977.
Steve Quinn passed away at 64 yrs old.
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I would love to donate to help the WPI.
I live in Australia and my accountant has told me that only locally registered charities are tax deductible. It may seem like a small thing, but in the long run tax deductible status can make a big difference to charitable giving.
I'm wondering if patients in Australia can lobby our ME/CFS advocacy organisations to channel funds through to the WPI. I don't know if that is even legal or possible.
Does anyone here have any connections with registered charities in Australia that are associated with ME/CFS? Or know anything about this issue?
The same thing applies to Canada. Only locally registered charities are tax deductible.
Can a locally registered charity fund research efforts in another country?
Hi jonc.. We had?? (or maybe still have??.. i just looked about their site and can see things were updated in 2008) an excellent CFS/ME charity in Australia who really worked hard to help things over here in Australia (doctor education on CFS/ME and also of of general public) .. started back in 1998.
I once went to one of the big CFS/ME educational lectures, conferences they funded here (several states in Australia they held them).. by funding several famous world CFS/ME experts to come in from overseas eg Dr Daniel Peterson (who worked with Dr Cheney in that 1980s outbreak), Dr Kenny De Meirleir, Dr M Hooper and another specialist were brought over to do lectures for the medical professionals over here and separate ones for the general public. The lecture they gave in Sth Australia to the general public in Adelaide, I think would of had 400? people who attended and got latest info on CFS/ME back at that time. (and then they also held these education sessions on CFS in Eastern Australia state(s).
Throu this organisations hard work.. if you have a good CFS doctor, it may of been them who got him/her where he is today on this.
I think they've funded CFS/ME studies here in Australia. (actually quite a bit of CFS/ME research has come out of Australia). You may want to see if this charity is still about http://fresh-guild.com/ahmfsite/index.html (the one who started it, her daughter died of CFS/ME). I just noticed they have got the link to the WPI site on their site.
The may of just moved sites?? As I have been doing the wiki page on the CFS orgs and checked all the links and this organisation had a different web address.. but noticed today the old link wasnt going and then found the web links i just put up here. (this organisation in the past has gone quiet for a while..and then done big things so whether they are still active and gearing up for something.. i dont have a clue).
The photo of Alison Hunter always makes me emotional. Poor girl only lived to be 19 before dying of ME. When I saw that website it makes you think. There are still people who believe ME can be cured by psychology (such as the Lightning Process/CBT). It's so insulting for patients with the genuine illness and of course to those who have died of the neurological disease.
Australians look utterly isolated not just by politics but geography, I really feel for them. I so hope they can get an XMRV test soon and yourself too. Good luck.
Australia is fully entrenched in the CBT school of 'think yourself well', just like the US and UK, but possibly worse.
Lloyd has worked with the CDC, I think. He is really the Australian branch of the CDC if you want to think like that. He has done some good work as well as the atrocious (wasn't he part of the Dubbo study?). He is firmly entrenched in the psychobabble from what I hear, but mostly this is anecdotal. I am stretching my memory on this, and I could be wrong, but wasn't he a believer in EBV causing CFS and then became disenchanted? I think he fell into the trap of thinking that if the only obvious choice of pathogen (back then) was wrong, CFS must be psychological.
Apologies for all the caveats, my memory is fubar today.
I don't have enough experience to say whether it is entrenched or not. I have heard that MECFS Victoria does some great work. But without even looking I have come across a few disturbing articles on sites.
an article which Peter White authors "What causes chronic fatigue syndrome?
Infections, physical inactivity, and enhanced interoception may all play a part".
This has information about a talk that Andrew Lloyd has already given. There is a slideshow that you can view or copy. I has a bit of information relating to the Dubbo study.
These two are both on mecfs support group websites.
Edit: The Andrew Lloyd talk is not on Sunday the 20th August (I could have looked at the calendar as the 20th is not a Sunday). The above link is from a previous year. My apologies. I changed the sentence about this.
So if there is any support group talking with WPI please let us know.
I don't have enough experience to say whether it is entrenched or not.
You seemed pretty certain a couple of comments back.
We got plenty of problems here in Australia, just try to find a general practitioner who wants to deal you. But the way we get treated is nothing like what patients in the UK seem to have to deal with. For a start, we don't have to go through CBT/GET programmes just to get disability pensions, and there is no distinction between psychiatric and organic disorders for the pension, it is the same rate for both, and the pension has been seriously upgraded under the current Labor government.
Can't speak about the situation in the USA, don't know.
Doubt you will be able to find any country in the world who treats ME/CFS patients particularly well. But I can tell you I am very grateful to be here in Australia rather than the UK, despite the serious hassles I have had over the years.
I too am "grateful to be here in Australia" compared to other places.
I was officially diagnosed with somatoform disorder, despite SPECT scans showing deteriorating brain abnormalities. My doctor had to refer me to a psychiatrist who was not allowed to mention fatigue and to focus on psychiatric terms only. That was entrenched in the Queensland Government's Health Department. I am not sure if that attitude has softened. Officially I don't have CFS, irrespective of whatever treatment is advised for CFS.
Further to what Tania was saying you could contact http://www.mecfs.org.au/ and ask them about it.
"The Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation (AHMF) works independently, in a spirit of support and cooperation, with all researchers, institutions and ME/CFS societies to advance scientific knowledge and medical care." The AHMF is still very much in operation.
There's nothing in his slides that backs up such an categorical statement. I wonder how he squares it with recent research results. He's certainly had plenty of time to revise his thoughts since last year's Science article.
Maybe he would be less categorical were he to give the talk now?
Australia is no worst off then America in the views on CFS/ME and in fact may be actually better off in views as there has been a strong push in the past for doctors to go by the canadian consensus defination. This push was done i believe by Alison Hunter group and some of the other state CFS organisations over here (each states organisations used to work completely independantly). As in other places its up to the patients to educate the doctors as they dont really learn about this illness in medical school so will just form opinions from whatever info they come across. Alisons Hunters death i think did impact some on how things are over here.. but that was quite a while ago now.
Testing things in CFS/ME is not discouraged over here.. like goes on in England and some so in America. Thou finding a good doctor still is very hard esp when some of our doctors get their info from the CDC site. In the Canadian defination CFS/ME guidelines testing common findings found in CFS/ME is encouraged. Bascially here in Australia the doctors are either the CC CFS views or the CDC views.. or sitting in between, its up to them how they choose to think about the illness..
There was differences on what is going on depending on what state you are in and how active that CFS association has been in their doctor education etc. Such as the big conference done for doctors here in the past in Sth Australia (sponsored by Alison hunter memorial). In Sth Australia.. their own CFS guideline book was made (sponsored by our states government) and presented to doctors at one point to help educate.
Here http://sacfs.asn.au/medical/what_causes_cfs.htm an article which Peter White authors "What causes chronic fatigue syndrome?
Here http://www.mecfscanberra.org.au/actmecfs/act_science%20week.htm Andrew Lloyd is to give a talk and from what I can see his slide show is there to view and copy. The talk is on Sunday August 20th in Canberra and I wonder if he is going to change any of his slides.
The SACFS support group i can say arent biased at all towards psychological causes. That study at the site may of been there just cause them posting the latest studies in a non biased way, the site is like a one stop shop.. in which you can find out all kinds of things to do with CFS, what is going on with it in the other states etc etc. Just like here.. you see the wessely view kind of studies published, so we all know what is being said and studied, it dont mean thou that this site is biased towards Wessely views.
Up until last year they used to publish their own CFS mag to which i was subscribing to (till they merged the mag with another aust. CFS support group), in that for the time i was getting it for, i didnt see any articles done by ones of Wessely views. They were really taking this illness as a true physical one.
Since the mag thou has merged last year with the other group interstate, now it has articles i dont like from Wessely school thought people eg Lloyd. The only big name over here i see a Wessely or CDC issue with is Lloyd.
The most bad treatment most of us get over here is that no doctor will help treat us.. due to the treatments being unproven and they will just turn around and say "sorry we cant help" or "i dont deal with that, i have no time to be researching" "Your case is too complicated for me" (this is what ive got from lots and lots of different doctors over here).
Ive NEVER even had a doctor ever tell me since the 13 years ive got this illness that i should have GET or CBT for it (that gets as much support as B12 injections and other CFS/ME therapies). (so i think the GET and CBT must be more likely to occur to those in England and America). Its extremely hard to get any help like that over here, even if you want it. I wanted some therapy in just trying to deal with this illness and its been so hard to get what ive managed to get with a ton of pushing for it.
England has it the far worst between England, America, New Zealand and Australia. (and of cause other different countries have it even worst still where there isnt even an illness called CFS or one along those lines at all).
Being a country island.. we are more isolated then other parts of the world so harder to get specialised tests. Hence no way to have a XMRV test here yet. (the only one testing here i think for a study was Lloyd). So that poison is probably affecting some Australian states.


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"Futuro imperfecto" es el octavo episodio de la cuarta temporada de la serie de televisión de ciencia ficción Star Trek: La nueva generación.

La trama se basa en la película de 1965 36 Horas.

Resumen de la Trama
Fecha estelar 44286.5. La celebración del cumpleaños del comandante William Riker es interrumpido cuando él, Geordi La Forge y Worf se teletransportan a una enorme caverna subterránea de un planeta de clase M para investigar inusuales lecturas. Después de llegar en la caverna inesperadamente se llena con gases tóxicos, y los tres oficiales caen inconscientes. Worf y La Forge son teletransportados sin incidentes pero la Enterprise es incapaz por alguna razón no puede fijar a Riker.

Riker despierta en la enfermería para encontrarse que han pasado dieciséis años. Ahora él es capitán de la Enterprise, Data es el primer oficial, y Picard ha sido promovido a almirante, con Deanna Troi sirviendo como su ayudante. Su amnesia, de acuerdo a la Doctora Crusher, es un efecto colateral de una infección viral que él contrajo durante la misión de exploración 16 años antes — el último evento que él recuerda antes de despertar. Ella le informa que su memoria acerca de los eventos que han sucedido hasta ese momento pueden o no retornar con el tiempo.

Riker también se entera que estuvo casado, y que ahora es viudo, y que tiene un hijo (Chris Demetral) llamado Jean-Luc (nombrado de acuerdo a Picard). Además es sorprendido cuando Tomalak — un antiguo archienemigo de la Enterprise, ahora un embajador Romulano — se teletransporta hacia la nave para negociar un tratado de paz con la Federación Unida de Planetas.

A medida que los eventos progresan numerosas inconsistencias van surgiendo. El computador de la Enterprise consistentemente se retrasa cuando Riker le consulta acerca de su pasado. Data es incapaz de responder cuando Riker le hace rápidamente varias preguntas computacionales. Y finalmente la fallecida esposas de Riker "Min" se revela como Minuet, el personaje ficticio de la holocubierta del que él se enamora en el episodio 15 "Números binarios" de la primera temporada. Riker se da cuenta de que el entero "futuro" que él ha estado viviendo es una farsa y confronta a Picard y Tomalak en el puente de la Enterprise, donde da más pruebas de que nada es real, Data no puede hacer un cálculo que él debería ser capaz debido a su cerebro positrónico, y también usa contracciones, que Riker sabe perfectamente que él no puede usar.

Repentinamente, el programa se congela y el falso futuro se desvanece, revelando una avanzada holocubierta Romulana. El "embajador" (realmente comandante) Tomalak se revela como el perpetrador de la decepción, siendo el objetivo de esta el engañar a Riker para que entregue la localización de un puesto fronterizo clave de la Federación. Los Romulanos, explica Tomalak, fueron engañados por la intensidad de la memoria de Riker acerca de Minuet y la habían incorporado en su fantasía en el supuesto que ella era real.

Riker es puesto en un área de restricción, donde él se encuentra con el muchacho cuya imagen usaron los Romulanos para crear a su "hijo". El muchacho se identifica como "Ethan". Juntos, se las arreglan para escapar y brevemente eludir a sus guardias romulanos. Sin embargo, cuando los dos se estaban escondiendo de su perseguidores, Ethan inadvertidamente se refiere a Tomalak como "embajador", en vez de "Comandante". Riker se da cuenta de que aún se encuentra en una simulación y confronta a Ethan acerca de eso, él pide que el juego termine inmediatamente y que le sea permitido partir.

Todo desaparece una vez más, dejando solo a Riker y Ethan en la caverna donde la partida de desembarque de la Enterprise había estado explorando. Ethan le confiesa que él ha creado las simulaciones, usando sofisticados escáneres para leer la mente de Riker y crear la "realidad" que él experimentó. El planeta de Ethan había sido atacado y su gente asesinada, su madre lo había escondido en la caverna por su propia seguridad, con todo el equipo de simulación, antes que ella misma muriera; y Ethan, completamente solo, había estado anhelando compañía. Riker se da cuenta de las intenciones pacíficas de Ethan, quién revela su verdadera forma física como un extraterrestre insectoide llamado Barash, y le ofrece refugio en la Enterprise. Barash acepta, y los dos amigos se teletransportan hacia la nave.

Curiosidades
Barash no vuelve a aparecer más, pero en este episodio dice que es teletransportado a la Enterprise.

Enlaces externos

 Future Imperfect en Memory Alpha, una wiki de Star Trek.
 Futuro imperfecto en StarTrek.com (en inglés)

Episodios de Star Trek: La nueva generación
Episodios de televisión de 1990
Holografía en ficción

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Q: SQL delete where not in (...) query not behaving as expected We have the following query which returns the most recent fares from our database :
SELECT f1.id
  FROM ( SELECT * FROM fares ) AS f1
INNER JOIN ( SELECT origin_id
                  , destination_id
                  , market_id
                  , cabin
                  , tripType
                  , max(created_at) AS maxDate
               FROM fares
              GROUP BY origin_id
                     , destination_id
                     , market_id
                     , cabin
                     , tripType
            ) AS f2  ON f2.origin_id      = f1.origin_id
                    AND f2.destination_id = f1.destination_id
                    AND f2.market_id      = f1.market_id
                    AND f2.cabin          = f1.cabin
                    AND f2.tripType       = f1.tripType
 WHERE f1.created_at = f2.maxDate
 GROUP BY f1.origin_id
        , f1.destination_id
        , f1.market_id
        , f1.cabin
        , f1.tripType

In our test dataset (SQL Fiddle) this returns two rows. When we change the query to work as a delete query it deletes everything but three rows, while it should delete everything but the two rows:
DELETE FROM fares
 WHERE id NOT IN
     ( SELECT f1.id
         FROM ( SELECT * FROM fares ) AS f1
        INNER JOIN ( SELECT origin_id
                          , destination_id
                          , market_id
                          , cabin
                          , tripType
                          , max(created_at) AS maxDate
                       FROM fares
                      GROUP BY origin_id
                             , destination_id
                             , market_id
                             , cabin
                             , tripType
                   ) AS f2  ON f2.origin_id = f1.origin_id
                           AND f2.destination_id = f1.destination_id
                           AND f2.market_id = f1.market_id
                           AND f2.cabin = f1.cabin
                           AND f2.tripType = f1.tripType
        WHERE f1.created_at = f2.maxDate
        GROUP BY f1.origin_id
               , f1.destination_id
               , f1.market_id
               , f1.cabin
               , f1.tripType
    )

We noticed that the three rows that remain are also the product of the select query when the GROUP BY part is ommited.
Now the question is why does the SELECT query in the DELETE statement behave different than the SELECT statement by itself?
Reproduction:

*

*Take the schema from this SQLFiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/e943ee/2

*Run the query supplied in the SQLFiddle, only two rows are returned

*Add the delete query to the schema & rebuild the schema

*Execute "SELECT * FROM fares" and three rows are returned (where there should have been only two)

A: If you want to purge an outdated data then your query is a bit complicated:
DELETE FROM fares AS f1
  LEFT JOIN ( SELECT origin_id
                   , destination_id
                   , market_id
                   , cabin
                   , tripType
                   , max(created_at) AS maxDate
                FROM fares
               GROUP BY origin_id
                      , destination_id
                      , market_id
                      , cabin
                      , tripType
            ) AS f2  ON f2.origin_id      = f1.origin_id
                    AND f2.destination_id = f1.destination_id
                    AND f2.market_id      = f1.market_id
                    AND f2.cabin          = f1.cabin
                    AND f2.tripType       = f1.tripType
                    AND f2.maxDate        = f1.created_at  /* was omitted */
      WHERE f2.maxDate IS NULL
)

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So you're using custom actions for invoking actions in CRM and retrieving the results?
But you might have the issue, that you're setting the output of your custom action using a plugin and see no result / output parameters in the response, they are simply null. In this post I want to show you, how to solve this problem.
In addition to that, you need to take care that your plugin exececution step is executed synchronously and registered on post stage.
Otherwise the results will not be set in the response that you retrieve. This seems to be a limitation that you need to be aware of.


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Otto Friese (* 31. Dezember 1886 in Magdeburg; † 24. Juli 1947 in Bremen) war ein deutscher Gewerkschaftler, Politiker (SPD) und Verfolgter der Nationalsozialisten.

Biografie

Friese stammte aus einfachen Verhältnissen einer sozialdemokratisch geprägten Familie. Von 1901 bis 1904 erlernte er den Beruf eines Tischlers, musste aber nach der Gesellenprüfung, bedingt durch eine Armverletzung, den Beruf aufgeben und arbeitete als Lackierer.

1905 wurde er Mitglied der SPD und der sozialdemokratisch orientierten freien Gewerkschaft. Bei diesen Organisationen besuchte er Kurse der Arbeiterbildungsausschüsse.

1913 war er in Hamburg bei Blohm + Voss tätig und wirkte mit bei dem Bau des Schiffs Vaterland. 1914/15 war er wieder in Magdeburg für eine Patronenfabrik tätig. Ab 1915 war er Soldat an der Ostfront.

Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg wurde er Vertrauensmann des Deutschen Metallarbeiter-Verbandes (DMV). Im Mai 1922 stieg er auf zum gewählten Geschäftsführer des Verbandes in Vegesack. 1924 wählte man ihn zum Vorsitzenden des Arbeiterbildungsausschusses der Gewerkschaft.

1925 wurde er zum Mitglied der Stadtverordnetenversammlung der damals selbstständigen Stadt Vegesack im Land Bremen gewählt. Er widmete sich der Bildungspolitik und wurde 1927 Dezernent für die Volksschulen. Er war bis 1933 Sprecher der Stadtverordnetenversammlung. Es setzte sich für einen verstärkten sozialen Wohnungsbau ein, unterstützte den Bau eines Stadions und 1928 den Ankauf des Stadtgartengeländes Vegesack.

1933 wurde er von den Nationalsozialisten aus politischen Gründen verhaftet. Er war im Arbeitserziehungslager Farge inhaftiert. Ab 1946 wirkte er bis zu seinem Tod im Ortsamt Vegesack.

Ehrungen
 Die Otto-Friese-Straße in Bremen-Vegesack wurde 1952 nach ihm benannt.

Literatur
 Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon, Gesamtausgabe. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X.

Gewerkschaftsfunktionär
SPD-Mitglied
Person (Bremen)
Person (Vegesack)
Deutscher
Geboren 1886
Gestorben 1947
Mann


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A new NSW government policy that aims to free up public housing is concerning some pensioners, who say they'll be forced to move away or pay more.
A new NSW government policy on public housing is concerning some pensioners.
A Redfern pensioner aged 72 told the media that she is worried where she'll live after the policy comes into affect this September. She has lived in her inner Sydney unit for 47 years, but the new policy forces public housing tenants in homes with unoccupied bedrooms to pay up to $30 extra per week or move to somewhere smaller.
More than 17,000 large homes with three or more bedrooms are currently only occupied by singles or couples – amounting to 35,000 vacant bedrooms across the state, according to the government. Many of those occupants are elderly people whose children have moved on.
NSW Family and Community Services Minister Pru Goward said the policy is designed to encourage older tenants to move on as well.
An extra $20 dollars in weekly rent can sting, particularly for those on the pension.
The Redfern pensioner said the incentive didn't take other factors into consideration, including proximity to relatives, doctors and a support network.
The policy has been criticised by the state opposition as a cruel tax on pensioners which will hit the elderly, war widows, indigenous people and those with disabilities.
"Forcing the poorest people to uproot their lives or pay a $1560 a year tax is one of the most cruel and outrageous policies the O'Farrell government could have ever devised," opposition housing spokeswoman Sophie Cotsis said.


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Welcome to the website of Andrew Smith
Studio Teaching
Resume and Supporting Documents
Andrew Smith's musical journey has taken him all over the world in a wide array of musical genres. Currently, Andrew maintains an active career as a low brass educator and performer. He has presented recitals and masterclasses all across the world, and has presented at numerous international, regional, and state conferences.
In 2019, Andrew was a guest artist at the International Women's Brass Conference in Tempe, Arizona, as well as a presenter at the College Band Directors National Association Athletic Band Symposium in Seattle, Washington. In previous years, Andrew was a featured soloist at the Asociación Española de Tubas y Bombardinos Regional Conference in Madrid, Spain, Andrew Hermann J. Abs Chamber Music Hall at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany, as well as a featured soloist with the Sandhills Wind Symphony at the Kaiserasall im Kurfürstliuchen Schloss Mainz, located in the Kaiser's Palace, and the Mittelrhein Music Festival in Koblenz, Germany.
Additional solo performances include Artist Performance Series at Campbell University, Guest Artist Recitals at Winthrop University, Brandon University, UNC Pembroke, The North Carolina Trombone Festival, and at the 2018 Southeast Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference in Tallahassee, Florida. Andrew has been a featured soloist with the Triangle Youth Brass Band, Triangle Youth Academy Brass Band, The Watson Band, Triangle Brass Band, UNCG Jazz Ensemble, Syracuse University Brass Ensemble, and the UNC Greensboro University Band.
In addition to his solo performing, Andrew Smith maintains an active career as an orchestral tubist. He has performed with the Fayetteville (NC), Roanoke, Rochester, Rainier (WA), Buffalo, and Syracuse Symphony Orchestras. He has also been a member of the North Carolina Brass Band, Triangle Brass Band, Brass Band NW, Georgia Brass Band, Tubist in the Internationally Acclaimed Brass Quintet Bay Street Brassworks, Eastman Brass Guild, and the Eastman Wind Ensemble.
In addition to his active career as a performer, Andrew Smith also has been given presentations at the various state, regional, and international conferences. Previous presentations include the North Carolina Music Educator's Conference, 2014 International Tuba Euphonium Conference at Indiana University, the 2013 Great Plains Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, the 2013 Southeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference at the University of North Florida, 2013 National Association of Professional Band Instrument Repair Technician's International Conference, and the 2013 Northeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference at Ithaca College. Topics of clinics include "The History of the Publications of ITEA," "Repairs From The Back Row – A Different Look at Tuba, Euphonium and Sousaphones," and "How to Recruit Successful Low Brass Players in Secondary Schools."
Andrew holds the Bachelor's Degree in Music Performance from Ithaca College, Certificate in Band Instrument Repair Technology from Renton Technical College, the Master's Degree in Music Performance and Literature and the Artist Leadership Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Music Performance from UNC Greensboro. His primary teachers include Ed Diefes, Dave Unland, Don Harry, Craig Sutherland, and Dennis AsKew. Prior to his appointment at Campbell, Andrew held positions on the faculty of UNC Greensboro and Methodist University.
Andrew Smith is a member of the International Tuba Euphonium Association, International Women's Brass Conference, College Band Directors National Association, College Music Society, The National Association for Music Education, North Carolina Music Educators Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity.


I'm retired now because I have to look after my wife who is not oin the best of health.
For myself I've been involved in property development for more than 20 years having wondered into the building trade whilst I was traveling ~ my first construction job was in Corsica, where I worked as a carpenter... using skills that my Irish father had naturally passed on to me, and good schooling had honed. Formerly I had been a chef in London.
In 1993 I decided I wanted a change and so I went back to education and qualified as a 'chiropodist' ( podiatrist ) ~ a foot doctor. I did this for about 10 years and, weird as it seems ( no one likes smelly feet LOL ), I thoroughly enjoyed the work. Along the way I began to specialize in gait analysis... particular as to how it was appropriate to gymnasts.
Sadly, there are a great many people plying for the same jobs, and since only the best succeed in any given field I went back to carpentry, and through that into the development of old properties... it was an open field in the 1980's. There were a great many properties in the London area that were crying out to be saved.
However getting hold of the collodian was like panning for gold... no-one wanted to supply it in the quantities I wanted because they all knew something was going on.
Rich Kalusa at SkinYourScreen bowled me over with his designs for Aston desktops, and he was the first person who made me aware that their were good folks around who weren't competing with one another, but were gladly sharing ideas and knowledge on the graphics front... a bit of a revelation after having visited some of the other forums.
Not much now. Other commitments must take preference.
Photoshop will always be number 1. Terragen has given me a lot of fun and some great walls, as has Bryce. I marvel at what some folks can do with the likes of Apophosys and Chaoscope, but nah! Photoshop7 for me.
Well I do but I don't keep it up ~ http://www.mickeblue.co.uk/ ~ I'm lazy and haven't had a lot to say this year.
No, but I'll say something outside the interview LOL.
I gave up sketching 40 years ago... never imagined I'd pick up a pencil or a brush again, but I found a new canvas using an electronic canvas and a new set of tools, and I'm fortunately I'm not alone... I'm always amazed by the wonderful creations I see every day when I log on... wallpapers, skins, photographs, doodles... whatever it is it you put online we are all the richer for it.
Thank you Mick for your candid, insightful interview.


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Q: Why does scala sometimes need args named in an anonymous function? I don't understand why scala needs me to sometimes name args to anon fns:
scala> case class Person(name: String)
defined class Person

scala> def reverseString(s: String) = s.reverse
reverseString: (s: String)String

scala> val p = Some(Person("foo"))
p: Some[Person] = Some(Person(foo))

scala> p map { reverseString(_.name) }
<console>:12: error: missing parameter type for expanded function ((x$1) => x$1.name)
              p map { reverseString(_.name) }

// why does it only work when I name the argument? I'm not even telling it the type.
scala> p map { p => reverseString(p.name) }
res9: Option[String] = Some(oof)

// and shouldn't this fail too?
scala> p map { _.name.reverse }
res13: Option[String] = Some(oof)

A: The answer is in the error message, but cryptically so:
(x$1) => x$1.name

Wait, what?  You wanted x$1 => reverseString(x$1.name).
So now you see exactly what went wrong: it assumed the function was inside the reverseString parens (i.e. you wanted to pass a function to reverseString).  By explicitly naming the variable, you demonstrate to it that it was mistaken.
(It gives that message because once it assumes that reverseString should be passed a function, it doesn't know what type to make that function since reverseString actually wants a string, not a function.)

A: I believe this is what is referred to as Type Inference.  Also, _ is just a placeholder.  (You already defined p as type Some[Person] so the compiler is smart enough to figure that out when used the way you did)


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The Truth Agents/Brokers & FFM Navigators The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
March 18, 2014 Ed MacConnell
Shared with permission from B. Ronnell Nolan, HIA, CHRS-President/CEO – HAFA
Financial Media Group, LLC, Centennial, CO, compiles this information annually. There are approximately 1.2 million licensed insurance agents nationally. The 1.2 million does not include the staff of licensed agents employed throughout the United States. After adding the staff, imagine the millions of people that Agents represent, educate and protect on a daily basis!
With the passing of the ACA, Health Agents for America, Inc. was formed to create a tool box for Agents to use in educating the citizens of their local communities. HAFA is known to fight for Agents and the Clients they represent.
As bills are filed and passed across the Nation to regulate Navigators, I felt it was important to share the truth.
In Washington, it was explained to me that Navigators were created because Agents would not go into rural areas and we did not speak different languages. Someone was misinformed! I use the analogy, imagine if Washington created an entity to replace attorneys, because they didn't represent poor people and their fees were too high. I am not sure that group would have been created?
What You Should Know….
Agent/Broker's commission is included in your insurance premium. Prior to the ACA, Agent/Broker commissions averaged 5%. Post ACA, Agents have received a 50% decrease in their income.
FFM Navigators are paid with Federal Grant money; therefore they are paid with Tax Dollars. They are absolutely not FREE.
Agent/Brokers are required to have 24 hours of on-gong continuing education to hold a license, in addition to obtaining the 20 hours of CMS training to sell in the new Marketplace.
FFM Navigators were required to complete the CMS training, with no requirement for on-going training for the ever changing new marketplace.
Background Checks:
Selling an insurance policy requires an Agent/Broker to handle proprietary information, such as social security numbers, income, etc. Agent/Brokers are trained, a background check is conducted and they are fingerprinted. All requirements to protect the consumer.
Fingerprinting or background checks in any form are not required of FFM Navigators. There are some known Navigator programs to use felons for rehabilitation.
Enrolling versus Selling:
Agent/Brokers sell insurance and provide service for the life of the policy.
FFM Navigators enroll.
Reports across the US are surfacing, FFM Navigators are giving advice to employers to drop their employee coverage (PA) and giving bad tax advice, suggesting a person loses their income tax refund for obtaining a subsidy (LA).
Consumer Advocacy:
Agent/Brokers throughout the US are conducting free seminars to explain the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
FFM Navigators in States that received Federal Grants are conducting free seminars to explain the Individual Mandate.
Party Affiliation:
Agent/Brokers throughout the US are registered to vote representing every political party, they live in and work in rural areas, they speak several languages and they vote for elected officials that refuse to promote the Agent/Broker community.
FFM Navigators, I am sure represent different political parties.
There are elected officials, elected by the people that refuse to promote Agent/Brokers along with the Navigator entities. If both are constituents, why not include both groups?
If the goal is truly to help those uninsured, then why not use the "boots on the ground", the experts, the American Agent and Broker from your local community. I have asked over and over to partner with Navigators and their answer is NO. Note, Navigators working in some State Based Exchanges Marketplaces, work with Agent/Brokers.
Navigator News…
Privacy claims have led to a surge of restrictive measures like those in Texas. At least 17 states have passed regulations on health care navigators since, including Louisiana, Georgia, Ohio, and Tennessee.
PHOENIX Arizona has joined several other states considering measures that would require extra licensing and background checks for health exchange navigators who help people buy coverage.
The state House on Thursday approved a bill that would require navigators to get a license through the state Department of Insurance and to pass a criminal background check.
Ohio governor Gov. John Kasich signed a similar bill into law last year, but a federal judge has put an injunction on it. Lawmakers in Missouri, Louisiana, South Dakota and South Carolina have also proposed similar measures.
Proponents say the requirements protect consumers who share private information such as Social Security numbers and tax returns from identity theft.
The Arizona bill would not impose a fee or extra training but it would bar anyone convicted of a misdemeanor involving fraud or dishonesty from becoming a navigator. An amendment to the bill would also allow the employer of a navigator to attest that the navigator has passed a background check in lieu of an inspection by the state.
3 California ACA Navigators have Criminal Convictions, including for forgery and welfare fraud.
Felons could have been hired as ObamaCare Navigators",Sebelius tells Senate panel.
Google, Louisiana Navigators and you will find this power point, which blatantly mischaracterizes an Agent/Broker:
http://www.lrha.org/pdf/2013/Navigators%20for%20a%20healthy%20La.pdf SURPRISE!! They reported CMS gave them the power point to use!
Take a minute today and write your elected officials! Ask them to consider the use of the Agent and Broker community and discuss the importance of the regulation of the Navigator community. Bills are currently filed in PA, LA and several other States. Get Involved! Share the Truth!!
A big thank you to Democratic leader, Representative Regina Ashford-Barrow for using HAFA Agents alongside Navigators!
Today, I received an update about the ACA from a Louisiana Senator promoting the use of navigators, with no mention of the Agent/Broker community.
HAFA agents can be found at www.HAFAmerica.org, by State and by City, under "Find an Agent"! We have until March 31, 2014, 11:59 Eastern Time to enroll all of the uninsured in the United States.
B. Ronnell Nolan, HIA, CHRS President/CEO – HAFA
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First Total Lunar Eclipse for 2019 visible from Tenerife!
Dear lucky holliday makers in the Canaries Island, this very Monday morning 21st of January you will be spoiled with the first total lunar eclipse of the year 2019!
However be prepared for an early morning show as totality will happen at 0441 (UTC), 0551 local Tenerife time !
At the moment of totality the Moon will be visible in the west at about mid-height above the horizon and its duration will last about an hour, notice its unusual orange color !
Enjoy the show, you don't need any telescope to watch it !


When your official campaign website is a brochure about you, instead of a vehicle to share and discuss our city, getting the election date right would be a good start.
Or maybe when you assume that you are automatically going to get re-elected, none of this matters.
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Yeh, did you catch his accomplishments in "ofice"?
Nan Whaleys page shows only white people, Joey Williams page only shows black, where is the diversity in this diverse city?
"8-year member of the Dayton Board of Education," and yet he has typos all over his campaign website?
Joey's people have fixed the misspelling of "ofice" now….
Nan's site has (2) photos, I think, so saying she "only shows white people" is grasping. Joey's, on the other hand, is rather disappointing. He has a gallery of only a few photos and there's ONE white person (not counting any that might be in the background).


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Pallagorio est une commune italienne de la province de Crotone dans la région Calabre en Italie.

Histoire

La commune abrite une forte communauté Arbëresh, Albanais installés ici au , fuyant l'avance ottomane. Ces Albanais ont gardé une forte identité, parlant toujours leur langue, l'arbërisht. Dans leur dialecte, albanais teinté d'italien, le village se nomme Puhëriu.

Administration

Hameaux

Communes limitrophes
Campana (Italie), Carfizzi, Casabona, San Nicola dell'Alto, Umbriatico, Verzino

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Commune dans la province de Crotone


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Oziroe biflora är en sparrisväxtart som först beskrevs av Hipólito Ruiz López och Pav., och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Franz Speta. Oziroe biflora ingår i släktet Oziroe och familjen sparrisväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Externa länkar

Sparrisväxter
biflora


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Critical research in intensive care
Prof Mark Peters
A UK-wide clinical trial looking at what is the best level of oxygen to aim for children who are on ventilation in intensive care is set to launch later this year.
The project has received £1.5 million of funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme. Led by Professor Mark Peters at GOSH with the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, the study aims to recruit 2000 children from 15 NHS paediatric intensive care units (PICU) across the country. Getting the correct levels of oxygen could allow critically ill children to receive less intensive treatment and help them recover faster.
In the UK, around 20,000 children are admitted to intensive care each year and about 75% will receive additional oxygen through a ventilator. In this study, which is known as Oxy-PICU, patients will be randomly assigned to have their blood oxygen levels kept at a lower level (88-92%, which is still within recommended guidelines) or at the level currently used (95-100%). The team will follow up all the children in the study after 90-days and one year to see how they are after leaving PICU.
While some research has shown that very low oxygen levels are harmful, other research has shown that very high levels may also be dangerous. In adults high oxygen levels can lead to worse outcomes in emergencies, such as heart attacks and strokes but because of the differences in how children's bodies function compared to adults, it is important that research is carried out to help doctors and nurses make more informed decisions about the best oxygen levels to use for children in intensive care.
The new trial follows on from a smaller pilot study which involved 107 patients from three UK intensive care units. The pilot showed that a full study was feasible and acceptable to families so Oxy-PICU will now be scaled up to a full trial.
The Oxy-PICU trial is part of an active programme of research in intensive care at GOSH with research ongoing into monitoring how best to manage fever in intensive care patients and into how much fluid to replace for patients who have experienced circulatory shock. Last year, the First-ABC trial, which will compares two different techniques for first line breathing support for 1200 critically ill children across 25 UK PICUs, was also awarded £1.5 million of funding from the NIHR HTA. The First-ABC study, led by Dr Padmanabhan Ramnarayan which involved 121 children who needed breathing support.
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Is the CIA Ready for the Age of Cyberwar?
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By David Rhode,
| November 3, 2016
Behind the most sweeping reforms in the agency's history—and their limits
When America goes to the polls Nov. 8, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials, it will likely experience the culmination of a new form of information war. A months-long campaign backed by the Russian government to undermine the credibility of the U.S. presidential election—through hacking, cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns—is likely to peak on voting day, the officials said.
Russian officials deny any such effort. But current and former U.S. officials warn hackers could post fictional evidence online of widespread voter fraud, release a final tranche of embarrassing hacked emails and slow the internet to a crawl through cyberattacks.
"Don't underestimate what they can do or will do. We have to be prepared," Leon Panetta, who served as Central Intelligence Agency director and defense secretary in President Barack Obama's first term, told me. "In some ways, they are succeeding at disrupting our process. Until they pay a price, they will keep doing it."
John Brennan, the current CIA director, declined to comment on the Russian efforts. But he said Russian intelligence operatives have a long history of marrying traditional espionage with advances in technology. More broadly, Brennan told me, the digital age creates enormous opportunities for espionage. But it also creates vulnerabilities.
Citing an array of new cyber, conventional and terrorist threats, Brennan announced the most sweeping reforms of the CIA in its 69-year history 18 months ago. Weakening the role of the Directorate of Operations, the agency's long-dominant arm responsible for gathering intelligence and conducting covert operations, Brennan created 10 new "mission centers" where CIA spies, analysts and hackers work in teams focused on specific issues. He also created a new Directorate for Digital Innovation to maximize the agency's use of technology, data analytics and online spying.
The information age "has totally transformed the way we are able to operate and need to operate," Brennan said in a series of interviews. "Most human interactions take place in that digital domain. So the intelligence profession needs to flourish in that domain. It cannot avoid it."
When a new American diplomat arrives for duty at the U.S. embassy in Moscow or Beijing, CIA officials say, Russian and Chinese intelligence operatives run data analytics programs that check the "digital dust" associated with his or her name. If the newcomer's footprint in that dust—social-media posts, cellphone calls, debit card payments—is too small, the "diplomat" is flagged as an undercover CIA officer.
The Russian-backed campaign to discredit the U.S. election is not isolated. Hackers believed to have links to Chinese intelligence began stealing the personnel records of 21.5 million federal employees and job applicants in 2014, the worst known data breach in U.S. government history. Islamic State propagandists online continue to inspire lone-wolf attacks in the United States even as the group loses territory.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, praised Brennan and his efforts to retool the CIA for this new digital era in an interview. So did Lisa Monaco, Brennan's successor as Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser.
But some current and former officials question Brennan's strategy, arguing his reforms are too digitally focused and will create a more cautious, top-heavy spy agency. At a time when the agency needs to refocus its efforts on human espionage, they say, the concentration of power in the new mission centers weakens the ability of the Directorate of Operations to produce a new generation of elite American spies.
Glenn Carle, a former CIA covert officer, praised Brennan and his reforms, but said they have sparked a mixed reaction among Directorate of Operations officials who believe human intelligence is getting short shrift.
"The value the CIA can fundamentally add is to steal secrets, and the ultimate secret is intention," Carle said, referring to the often inscrutable aims of foreign leaders. "Obtaining that is a human endeavor."
At the same time, Brennan has stirred a different sort of criticism—that he has defied congressional oversight. Liberal Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress say the Brennan-Obama tenure has been tarnished by a lack of transparency with congressional oversight committees and the public regarding surveillance, drone strikes and the agency's use of torture against terrorism suspects during the administration of George W. Bush.
"While I think John's overall legacy will be as a reformer, that legacy will suffer from his refusal to come to grips with the CIA's troubled torture program," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and vice chair of the Senate's intelligence committee. "I think the new president's CIA director must prioritize a high level of trust between the CIA and Congress to insure proper oversight is conducted."
It's unclear how closely the country's next president will hew to Brennan's strategy. The front-runner, Democrat Hillary Clinton, has an incentive to beef up American cyberespionage: U.S. intelligence officials blame the continuing leak of emails from her campaign on Russian-backed hacking. Clinton also expressed support for covert action in a transcript of a 2013 speech she gave to Goldman Sachs recently released by WikiLeaks.
Republican Donald Trump, meanwhile, pledged to make cybersecurity a top priority in his administration in an Oct. 3 speech.
"For nonstate terror actors, the United States must develop the ability—no matter how difficult—to track down and incapacitate those responsible and do it rapidly," Trump said. "We should turn cyberwarfare into one of our greatest weapons against the terrorists."
In interviews at agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Brennan declined to comment on either candidate or discuss operational details of the CIA. But he and eight other senior CIA officials gave the most detailed description yet of their rationale for the most radical revamp of the agency since its founding in 1947.
"I look out at the next 10, 20, 30 years, and I look at technology, I look at complexity, I look at the global environment," Brennan said. "I think CIA really needs to up its game."
Today, Brennan says the United States faces the most complex array of threats he has seen since joining the agency 36 years ago. As a CIA analyst, operative and executive, he lived the Cold War espionage duels of the 1980s; the disintegration of nation states after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall; the rise of nonstate terrorist groups since 2001; and the current digital disruption. Now, he says, all four dynamics are converging at once.
CIA officials told me their greatest state competitors are the Russian and Chinese intelligence services. While smaller countries or terrorist groups may want to strike at the United States, Russia and China are the only two adversaries with the combination of skills, resources and motivation needed to challenge Washington.
In recent years, Moscow's Federal Security Service, or FSB, has become adept at waging "gray zone" conflicts in Ukraine, Crimea and Syria, the officials said. In all three countries, Russian intelligence operatives have deftly shrouded protagonists, objectives and war crimes in ambiguity.
One target is America's increasingly politically polarized democracy. As Russian-backed hacking unfolded this summer, the Obama White House's response fueled frustration among law-enforcement and intelligence officials, according to current and former officials. The administration, they said, seemed to have no clear policy for how to respond to a new form of information warfare with no rules, norms or, it seemed, limits.
White House officials said the administration is still considering various methods of responding, but the responses won't necessarily be made public.
China presents another challenge. Chinese businessmen and students continue trying to scoop up American state and economic secrets. In one bright spot, Beijing appears to be abiding by a 2015 pact signed by Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping that the two governments would not conduct economic espionage against one another. Chinese cyberattacks appear to have slowed from the voracious rate of the past, which included hacking into the computers of the 2008 presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama, but not releasing what was found.
"The question is whether or not it is due to greater care in terms of covering one's tracks," Brennan said of the apparent change. "Or whether or not they realize that their brand is being tarnished by this very rapacious appetite for vacuuming up things."
In a 2015 case, federal prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old hacker from Kosovo. With the help of a criminal hacker, Ardit Ferizi stole the home addresses of 1,300 members of the U.S. military, providing the information to Islamic State and posting it online and calling for attacks on the individuals. Ferizi was arrested in Malaysia, where he was studying computer science. In September, Ferizi pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
"This blend of the criminal actor, the nation-state actor and the terrorist actor, that's going to be the trend over the next five years," said John Carlin, who recently stepped down as head of the Justice Department division that monitors foreign espionage in the United States.
But some active clandestine officers argue the intelligence community has grown too reliant on technology, a trend they trace back four decades to the directorship of Stansfield Turner. Satellite photography, remote sensors and communications intercepts have become more sophisticated, but so have encryption techniques and anti-satellite weapons.
More important, they argue, is that technology is no substitute for "penetrations"—planting or recruiting human spies in foreign halls of power. The CIA missed India's 1998 nuclear tests and misjudged Saddam Hussein's arsenal in 2003 because it lacked spies in the right places.
Some former officials question Brennan's strategy, arguing his reforms are too digitally focused and will create a more cautious, micromanaged spy agency. At a time when the agency needs to refocus its efforts on human espionage, they say, the centering of power in the new mission centers weakens the ability of the Directorate of Operations to produce a new generation of elite American spies who can take risks in the field.
Today, these current and former CIA officials contend, American policymakers have little insight, for example, into the thinking of Vladimir Putin's inner circle. Presidents, kings and dictators often don't share their private thoughts and true intentions electronically, putting this invaluable information largely beyond the scope of digital spying. The best sources are still people, and these officials believe the agency is not mounting the kind of bold human spying operations it did in the past.
Brennan and other CIA officials flatly denied downplaying human intelligence. They said aggressive, high-risk human spying is under way, but they cannot go into operational detail.
One of Brennan's predecessors, Michael Hayden, a former CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says the agency strayed from its core mission during the Bush years. After the al-Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA had to shift to become more of a paramilitary organization that devoted its most talented officers to tracking and killing terrorists. It now needs to reverse that trend by again focusing on espionage against rival nations, he said.
"The constant combat of the last 15 years has pushed the expertise of the case officer in the direction of the battlefield and in the direction of collecting intelligence to create physical effects," said Hayden, using an intelligence euphemism for killing. "At the expense of what the old guys called long-range, country-on-country intelligence gathering."
Richard Blee, a former CIA clandestine officer, said the agency needed reform but highlighted a separate problem created by technological change. Instant secure communications between CIA headquarters and officers in the field has centralized decision-making in Washington, Blee said. And regardless of administration, senior officials in Washington are less willing to take a risk than field officers—virtually all of whom complain about headquarters' excessive caution.
"The mentality across the board in Washington is to take the lowest common denominator, the easiest option, the risk-free option," he said. "The Chinese are taking tough decisions, the Russians are taking tough decisions, and we are taking risk-averse decisions. And we are going to pay a price for that down the road."
Brennan says his reforms will empower CIA officers: The integrated teams in each new mission center will improve speed, adaptability and effectiveness. The old ways of spycraft, he argues, are no longer tenable. Asked what worries him most, he gave a technocratic answer: 20th-century American government management practices are being rendered obsolete in the digital age.
"U.S. decision-making processes need to be streamlined and accelerated," he said. "Because the problems are not going to wait for traditional discussions."
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"Santa Claus is someone who will remain in the hearts of children forever.
He is the make-believe person who brings toys and other gifts to children at Christmas."
as he travels through southern Germany, December 2017."
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"Every December, many streets in Britain light up like Christmas trees and homes are adorned with snowmen, Santas and bucketfuls of fake snow.
Here is a selection of this year's festive festoonings"
"By the middle of the 1800s, American Christian groups began to ignore their religious differences over the meaning of Christmas and honored the day in special ways."
"It takes more than red clothing and a white beard to be a professional Santa. In fact, many aspiring Santas attend special classes."
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In Britain's mistletoe-growing regions, a branch would be brought inside at Christmas to protect the house. Any woman walking underneath could not refuse to be kissed, or she would remain an old maid. After a kiss, she would pick a berry from the branch."
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"Whether you're just interested in learning more about other cultures or want to incorporate some new traditions into your holiday celebrations, this article is filled with all you need to know about international Christmases."
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Spending on Christmas presents and basic essentials like heating is also likely to be cut."
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